After a successful career as a Marine Corps officer,
Wade Stuart, an ATF special agent, finds himself working undercover in his home
territory, the Mississippi Delta, infiltrating a militia unit with lofty goals.
When Stuart uncovers a plot to assassinate the governor of Mississippi and take
over the state as part of a people’s revolution, Washington plans to send in
the 2nd Marine Division to attack the militia. Stuart sees a bloodbath coming,
begs for more time to quash the plan, but the president sees this as a good
opportunity to set an example. Isolated and unsure of the decision out of Washington,
Stuart must race to shut down the militia before the military arrives. Enemy
Within rushes forward at breakneck speed, and only one man can stop these
domestic terrorists Wade Stuart!

First of a new fantasy series: In this alternate
1715, both science and alchemy work; young Ben Franklin, apprenticed to his
printer brother James in Boston, begins to study the various alchemical deviceslights,
weapons, faxes, and so onthat Isaac Newton has invented. Ben accidentally
intercepts a communication on the aether-schreiber’ and helps
solve the mathematical problem posed therein by an unknown scientist.

Soon, however, Bens being haunted by a weird,
insubstantial demon that demands he cease his researches. Britain and France,
meanwhile, fight a war using alchemical weapons. In France, Louis XIV, having
taken an immortality serum and survived an assassination attempt, has been
taken over by a demon, or malakus, like Bens. Nicolas Fatio de Duillier,
a vengeful ex-student of Newtons, uses Bens formula to alchemically
attract a comet from space towards London. Scientific genius Adrienne de Montchevreuil,
forced to become the kings mistress, and helped by a secret society
of women, labors to discover what Fatio has done.

Ben, threatened by his malakus, flees to London
to warn Newton; the latter, preoccupied with unmasking a traitor, cant
stop or divert the comet. London is annihilated after a hasty evacuation,
Ben becomes Newtons apprentice, and Louiss malakus moves on to
beguile Czar Peter of Russia.

1722: A second Dark Age looms. An asteroid has
devastated the Earth, called down by dire creatures who plot against the world
of men. The brilliantsome say madIsaac Newton has taken refuge in
ancient Prague. There, with his young apprentice Ben Franklin, he plumbs the
secrets of the aetheric beings who have so nearly destroyed humanity.

But their safety is tenuous. Peter the Great marches
his unstoppable forces across Europe. And half a world away, Cotton Mather and
Blackbeard the pirate assemble a party of colonial luminaries to cross the Atlantic
and discover what has befallen the Old World. With them sails Red Shoes, a Choctaw
shaman whose mysterious connections to the invisible world warn him that they
are all moving toward a confrontation as violent as it is decisive .

Marszalek traces the roots of Sherman’s hostility
toward the press and details his attempts to muzzle reporters during the Civil
War, culminating in Sherman’s exclusion of all reporters from his famous
March to the Sea.

Despite the passage of over a century, the question
of press rights in wartime situations is very much today what it was during
the Civil War. Marszalek finds a recurring movement toward repression of the
press, with Sherman’s attitudes and practices only one of the most obvious
examples. He also finds that press rights during wartime have often been governed
by reactions to specific circumstances rather than treated as a constitutional
issue.